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Anti-Kid Concord, from Start to Finish

by: Dean Barker

Wed Mar 23, 2011 at 06:08:44 AM EDT
( - promoted by William Tucker)

The economy that George Bush destroyed, and Barack Obama struggles to fix, moved more Granite Staters to pull an R ballot than a D one last November, giving us House Speaker Bill O'Brien and his supermajority.

In return for our vote Granite Staters received a sustained assault on our children. Looked at in its totality, the following to-do list should rightfully go down in New Hampshire history as one of the blackest marks ever against our young citizenry.

• Deleting judiciary power in education funding, so that the legislature can decide the state can contribute $0.00 to schools if it wants to.

• Repealing kindergarten as a requirement.

• Doing away with compulsory school attendance.

• Gutting the school bullying law on account of gays and lesbians.

• Defunding educational televsion.

• Defining down adequacy, so that towns don't have to offer courses students need to get accepted to college.

• Lowering the dropout age, i.e., guaranteeing youth joblessness.

• Abandoning at-risk kids by destroying Children in Need of Services.

• Cutting students' vocational training, limiting their ability get a quality job.

• Slashing funding to our public universities, guaranteeing tuition hikes.

• Disenfranchising college students' right to vote.

It occurs to me that if we have, as everyone expects, an open race for 2012, our side could really benefit from having a self-styled "education" gubernatorial candidate.  Because what it appears New Hampshire children need in the face of this assault is a champion for their rights and futures.

(birched; on Twitter @deanbarker)
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from hannah in another diary: (0.00 / 0)
Some people would kill for five minutes of fame.  Others find that dishing up a regular diet of abuse works wonders.  
"How outrageous can we be?" Let us count the ways as we deprive the children one by one.

Somebody ought to do a reprise of the daisy ad, except this time it should be children that are thrown away.

There was a reason Jesus said, "suffer the little children to come unto me." We still haven't learned that human children are an endangered species, because adults routinely threaten them to extort favors for themselves.

Found here.

he did say "suffer" Lucy (0.00 / 0)
the Teabaglicans are taking Jesus at his word.  
[ Parent ]
Draft Lynch 012 (4.00 / 3)
Seriously.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
That Works For Me! (4.00 / 1)
Also seriously.
[ Parent ]
Dean listed 11 assaults on our kids (4.00 / 1)
Draft LYNCH 2012-I assume from your bumper sticker response that you are suggesting that Lynch 2010 has defended education and the children...I only count two issues where Lynch has emerged from behind his desk..in defense of 5 year olds and keeping 16 year olds in school... otherwise I think he has been MIA or worse, supportive of getting the courts out of public education (a Republican/BIA wet dream). Is that leadership? Should we hope for more in the next election cycle or have the Republicans dulled our view of what is possible?
[ Parent ]
While not defending the Gov (I could stand to see him be more vocal (4.00 / 2)
on the bully law gutting, to use just one example), I think there does have to be a certain calculus and careful strategy on his part on what and where he decides to bully the pulpit in the face of veto overrides and this tidal wave of horrible legislation.

Pick a few, big, fundamental veto fights that engage media and public, and you may be spared from having many more smaller, harder to win, ones.

I won't pretend I know what the correct strategy is in this situation, but the thought occurs to me that his being judicious in picking his battles may be for the greater good of all the battles.

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker

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If Lynch is to be successful (4.00 / 1)
in beating back some of this, it will be because the people are speaking.  If we can sustain some rallies and protests - substantial ones - we give him the opportunity to influence outcomes.

Without a movement, there are no leaders.  

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

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Yes, I am suggesting that (4.00 / 1)
But that's okay, you and I have been disagreeing about the excellent job that our Democratic governors have been doing since 1997, and there is comfort in knowing that some things never change :)  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
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What a Sad List. (0.00 / 0)
Defense of the children is spurring resistance in Syria. (0.00 / 0)
http://www.allheadlinenews.com...
This is spot on (0.00 / 0)
There's actually a lot of other stuff going on in other areas, sometimes putting stuff into a few big buckets helps.



Ideology, dogma and corporate interests (0.00 / 0)
trump everything human.  

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein
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